Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Numero
• ASIN: B0006HCYJ2
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,515 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. One More Time Around (Majestic Arrows)

2. We Have Love (The Arrows)

3. Another Day (Majestic Arrows)

4. If You Love Me (Altyrone Deno Brown)

5. You've Got To Crawl To Me (Johnny Davis)

6. Boogedy Boogedy (The Arrows)

7. Doing It For Us (Majestic Arrows)

8. Love Is All I Need (Majestic Arrows)

9. Glad About That (Linda Balintine)

10. Bring Back The One I Love (The Arrows)

11. The Magic Of Your Love (Majestic Arrows)

12. I'll Never Cry For Another Boy (Majestic Arrows)

13. Sweet Pea (Altyrone Deno Brown)

14. The Love I See Now (Johnny Davis)

15. We Love Together (Majestic Arrows)

16. You're A Habit Hard To Break (Linda Balintine)

17. Going To Make A Time Machine (Majestic Arrows)

18. If I Had A Little Love Rehearsal (Majestic Arrows)

19. Make Yourself Over Rehearsal (Majestic Arrows)

20. I'll Never Cry For Another Boy Rehearsal (Majestic Arrows)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The Numero Group serves up a collection of unheard 70's soul from obscure South-side Chicago label Bandit Records. Between 1969 and 1981, the handful of 45s and single LP released on the Bandit imprint were orchestrated by musical/business mastermind Arrow Brown-- the reissue liner notes detail the somewhat incestuous group of family, friends, and oddballs he assembled to perform his compositions. The result is smooth vocal soul, heavy on the strings, informed as much by the Philly sound of the Spinners and the Delfonics as by Chicago natives the Chi-Lites. Highlights include The Majestic Arrows' falsetto stylings on "Doing It For Us" and "Going To Make A Time Machine", and the pre-adolescent love musings on "Sweet Pea" sung by the unusually-named Altyrone Deno Brown (7-year old son of label proprietor Arrow). --Ben Heege

Product Description

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the bizarre side of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the history of Bandit and the life of Arrow Brown. Unearthed in the process were two cassette tapes worth of acappella rehearsals that Numero has done their best to preserve in their lo-fi, in-the-red state.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars buy this record for sure, November 1, 2006

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Mark H. Ballard (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label (Audio CD)

this album is money, and for that matter this whole eccentric soul series is money. i got two of these discs so far, the other being the deep soul label (also terrific). singer neko case highly recommended the big mack label in a recent ny times article. i'm definitely getting the rest of the series asap. as for the bandit label... the opening track, 'one more time around' is butter...there's some 7 year old kid, i think i remember reading that he was 7, but he's something special. basically, there isn't a bad track and if you enjoy old soul music, that really rich, gritty soul -- these discs are 100% for you. bravo and kudos to the numero group label for getting these out!